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[ALR-bishop]

One day I was born. Over time I got old. And, in between I collected baseball cards.

[bcornell]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

One day I was born. Over time I got old. And, in between I collected baseball cards.

TMI, dude.

[Sean1125]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

One day I was born. Over time I got old. And, in between I collected baseball cards.

10/10 would read again

[brafcauknid]

My favorite current story is turning my daughters crazy organizational habits into a very special bond we share with set building/organizing sports(and some Disney) cards. My daughter is 8 and her and I don't always have a lot in common but sports cards/set building etc is one thing that has truly brought us closer together. She is verrrrrrry excited to be attending her first card show next month!

[tuckr1]

At 13 years old I was going to invest in my future in baseball cards, I still have 100 Future Star 1989 Topps Gregg Jeffries for sale if anyone is interested!!!!

[autocentral]

I got started by going through my fathers closet and finding full of baseball card albums. I thought I just discovered some treasure but it ended up just being junk wax from the 1980s. Even though it wasn't anything worth anything I fell in love with cards and from the early age of about 10 I collected non-stop.

-Nick

[slinger23]

I got started collecting cards after purchasing a Hygrade Collector's Kit at a school book fair in the 3rd or 4th grade. The kit came with a price guide, a small HoF set that was green bordered and several other reprints of key cards, along with a binder and some 9 pocket sheets. From that point I was hooked and would beg my parents to take me to the store to get some packs of 1987 Topps baseball. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world and felt a since of accomplishment when I completed the set back then. Of course, I can look back and laugh because of the OVERproduction of those cards, but it takes me back in time when I see a stack of 1987 cards and just thumb thru them.

[GehrigFan]

I was always a collector, starting at age 5 with coins and comic books. But I was tall, skinny, and totally uncoordinated, so I never really got into sports. When I was 16, I was with my parents at the mall (I grew up in Wyoming so it was a four-hour trip to the nearest mall in Montana), and had a couple hours to spare. My friends mostly collected sports cards, so I dropped in a card shop and decided to buy some packs of 1988 Donruss and a Beckett Price Guide. When I pulled a Gregg Jefferies SP RC and saw it was "worth" $5, and only paid 50 cents on the pack, I was hooked. I went home, placed an ad in the newspaper looking to buy cards, and my first purchase was a collection of 17,000 baseball cards that I spread all across the basement to sort.

Within two years, I opened a small card shop during the summers I was in college, and by 1997 I was working in the hobby full-time (and have been ever since)! Who knew that dropping by a card shop in 1988 would lead to an entire career?

Mark

[crose]

My grandmother was always the one who took me and my little brother to card shows and shops. She'd give us 10 or 20 bucks to spend and always buy some for herself. One thing she liked to buy was unopened boxes. Whenever we stayed with her, me and my brother would always want to open the boxes that she had saved, but she would not let us. She said when she died we could split them up and open them. "Well that's great Maw-Maw but who gets what?" So she sat down with a piece of paper and let us take turns picking and made a will for all her cards.

Fast-forward to a couple years ago, some 20 years later, I was visiting her and mentioned picking up some old baseball cards she might like to see. She went into her room and got here cardboard box of cards out and sitting on the top was that will signed by all three of us. We both got a good kick out of it.

[zachclose21]

2001 my mom brought home a notebook full of 1986 WWF wrestling cards from a garage sale.
I have been hooked ever since.
I now collect George Brett and love vintage cards. Buy a little sell a little love reading the board and the BST side
Congrats Sean on the success and best of luck in the future
Zach

[JoeDfan]

When I was a kid, my dad had a whole room full of baseball cards. He collected since he was a kid, and had one of those old glass display cases that light up, and if you push a button, the rows would slowly revolve. I must have spent hours watching the little cards go by.
Sadly, he died when I was 23, and my step-mom sold his collection.

Today, I have my own room full of baseball stuff. And somehow the stuff just keeps on growing...